Music Research

Introductions to major composers, instruments, or musical topics. Each "companion" contains a collection of commissioned essays, selected to provide a systematic critical overview of, for example, Bach, Ballet, or Brass Instruments.

A repository of scanned books contributed from academic institutions across the United States, including UCLA. Books still in copyright are scanned and searchable, but the full text scans will not become available online until their copyright expires.

Full text of the 5 volumes of Richard Taruskin's The Oxford History of Western Music:

• Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
• Music In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
• Music in the Nineteenth Century
• Music in the Early Twentieth Century
• Music in the Late Twentieth Century

Oxford Handbooks, now a part of Oxford Academic, provide review articles which summarize and analyze current research and trends in a given discipline. UCLA subscribes to most Oxford Handbooks Online, excluding a few individual titles.

Index to doctoral dissertations from 1637 to the present, with abstracts since 1980. A number of master's theses are also indexed, with abstracts since 1988. Many are available for download in pdf format. UCLA has access to all full text dissertations in the database. Non-UCLA users may use Dissertations Express to purchase digital or print copies of individual dissertations.